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How I’ve Attracted The First 500 Paid Users For My SaaS That Costs $5/mo

The Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch — By Yourself (Part 1)

How I made a SaaS webservice earning $1000 monthly profit

How I built a profitable SaaS web app: from idea to first sales

How to build a SaaS with $0

Building products without spending thousands of dollars.

10 Startup Marketing Lessons From 1,000 Days At A Venture-Funded SaaS

Growing Our SaaS Company To $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money. Key Lessons Learned

I used LAMP to make a SaaS with $3700/mo profit. Here’s how.

What Comes After SaaS?

It was a crisp San Francisco morning. Louis [name changed] was feeling confident, cable car track lines whirring in the…

Five things I learned building a Saas App with Vue.js

SaaS Financial Model: Simple Template For Early-Stage Startups

Modern UI/UX for SaaS applications in 2015 and Beyond

The world has moved on from old clunky desktop software. Cloud software-as-a-service is the name of the game. There is a whole lot of competition, and a great UI/UX is more important than ever in making your app stand out from the crowd.

6 SaaS Metric Frameworks & Benchmarks To Know Before Fundraising

The majority of SaaS Investors uses the same metric frameworks and benchmarks to quickly assess the fundamentals of a SaaS company. This is why it can be interesting to know and understand them before you start…

The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup

You think you need a COO. What you really need is an…

Designing for B2B and Enterprise SaaS

Challenges faced in design process & pointers to overcome them.

How I shipped my first SaaS side-project while working full-time

The Rise of Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies

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What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2018?

11 SaaS Pricing Hacks backed by Psychology

Ever wondered if a small tweak could 10x your SaaS startup’s growth? Here’s 11 ways…

The SaaS Founder’s Playbook for Customer Success

SaaS is ripe for disruption

Are we at peak SaaS?

The No-BS Approach to Building Your SaaS Startup’s Launch List (Part 2 of the Epic Guide to Bootstrapping)

Startup SaaS Stack

Startups are built to solve specific problems. When starting out, we focus all our energies on solving that specific problem…

We Studied 100 SaaS Sites To Uncover Design Trends + Best Practices (Here’s What We Found)

Vertical SaaS Sales done right — from 0 to 2500 customers.

From Xavier Zeitoun, CEO of Zenchef

Funded vs Bootstrapped: Comparing the Metrics of 37 SaaS Companies

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How To Start a Series A Fundable SaaS Business

A guide to acquiring customers and reducing churn early…

The SaaS Funding Napkin 2018

What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2018? (3/3)

In the first part of this series I shared the quantitative data that I collected in my recent survey among more than 60 SaaS investors. Part two focused…

Everything I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Demoing SaaS

Open Source is losing, SaaS is leading, 
APIs will win…

Roadmap to a SaaS IPO: how to unicorn your way to $100M revenue

7 Trends that Will Shape the SaaS Industry in 2016

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25 Ruby Gems I use in almost every SaaS project

and pretty much can’t live without

The Rails community thrives on its open source gems. Implementing a well written, well tested and vetted gem can make the difference between days and weeks of…

A fresh new avenue for Google to kill your SaaS startup

In the old days, when Google wanted you dead…

9 SaaS growth hacks that we will never implement, and the 3 that we did

The Modern Tech Stack to Build a SaaS in 2021 as a Team of One-Man with Next JS and AWS

Why VCs Love SaaS Businesses

A couple weeks ago, I shared a chart with the stock performance of recent tech IPOs along with this tweet:

Work in SAAS? Here are some tricks to retain your clients during COVID-19

Freemium vs Free Trial vs Hybrid Customer Acquisition Model in SaaS:

How To Develop a Customer…

A Simple Sales Methodology for B2B SaaS Startups

Updated April 2021

An overview of the Growing “SaaS Enabled Marketplace” Ecosystem

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10+ SaaS Ideas for Your Next Billion-Dollar Startup From 2022 to 2030

Riding on $2.4 trillion SaaS —…

What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2019?

Software Engineer → SaaS Founder

In May 2015 I quit my job as a software engineer at Facebook to start a company. If I could go back, I’d do it all differently.

The best way to scale and deliver your SaaS startup

What are Cloud Computing Services [IaaS, CaaS, PaaS, FaaS, SaaS]

Difference between IaaS SaaS PaaS…

The top 3 things investors are looking for in SaaS startups

What does it take to raise capital, in…

There is no better “growth hack” for SaaS than talking with your customers

Not just when you’re…

The Evolution of the SaaS Stack and What Could Come Next

Why the SaaS era of journalism will be our most exciting.

The shift from advertising models to…

B2B 行銷方法論（一）：用戶增長 & 內容運營方法論，To C 模型修正、 SaaS 產品特性

To B 與 To C 的產品特徵差異？AARRR、5A 內容路徑模型的修正，B2B 產品、內容與用戶運營行銷的方法論

Modeling Your Startup’s Future: Template for SaaS Startups

Financial planning for SaaS startups

Somewhere between prophecy and ignorance there’s a sensible spreadsheet. Here’s how to build it.

This is a guide on how to build an 18–24 month financial plan for an early stage SaaS company with product market fit, some revenues, growing…

How to know if Kubernetes is right for your SaaS

SaaS Explosion Creates SaaS Chaos: Analyzing 8 Years of SaaS Data

The SMB SaaS Explosion

8 things that will definitely happen as you scale your SaaS business from $0-$1m

This is our story. I…

Enterprises vs SMBs: Who’s the Better Customer for B2B SaaS Startups?

There’s a problem with SaaS startups and marketing

Türkiye’nin SaaS girişimleri

Jetlink & Countly ekipleri ile birlikte “Acaba Türkiye’deki SaaS girişimlerini bir araya getirip sinerji yaratabilir miyiz?” sorusuna yanıt aramak üzere bir Slack grubu…

How to Level up from $100/month SaaS Deals to $1M Enterprise Sales

SaaS Metrics: Benchmarking Your Churn Rates

Analysing the churn rates of 1500+ SaaS companies

2018–2025: The Golden Age of SaaS Freemium

Way back in 2012, in the early days of SaaStr, we wrote a piece challenging everyone…

History of Public SaaS Returns and Valuations

Public SaaS Trading History

Scaling Lessons From The Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever

An interview with Parker Conrad of Zenefits

B2B SaaS: the right Org Structure at the right Stage

What’s the Lead Generation Profile of Fast Growing SaaS?

This article is the first of a series of two posts taken from a workshop focused on lead generation that we held during our Point Nine SaaS Founder Meetup. If you want to be kept informed of our new posts you can subscribe to our…

Freemium vs Free Trial: Which is Better for SaaS Startups?

7 DOs and DONTs for Seed-Stage SaaS Pricing

Pricing is a big lever in SaaS. But you should not…

7 Reasons why Product Management continues to play a greater role in SaaS

Great products are the lifeblood of every tech company, whether young or mature. Within the current SaaS landscape — especially regarding self-service and transactional sales models where switching costs…

A Look Back at Q1 Public SaaS Earnings

Q1 earnings season for Cloud businesses is now behind us. The 54 companies that I’ll discuss…

My SaaS iOS App $3000 Sale Story

I made a Mandarin learning iOS app, and after four months I sold it on Flippa for $3000. Want to know…

What Everyone Should Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

We’re talked about each before individually, but let me throw ’em together:

• It may well take 24 months to get to true product-market fit and Initial Traction. If you budget any less, you probably will fail…

Brazil SaaS Landscape 2017: A Primeira Pesquisa Sobre o Mercado SaaS no Brasil.

As lições de mais de…

Peek inside HubSpot’s multi-million dollar SaaS growth strategy

The importance of customer segmentation in SaaS

Why cherry-picking is sometimes OK and why you can’t…

SaaS Funding Napkin, the 2017 edition

Today is January 10, 2017. That means that in ten days, this jerk will become the leader of…

List of SaaS Companies in Chennai

Over the years, Chennai has grown to become the SaaS hub in India.

Why Some SaaS Hit a Wall at $20m in Revenues

Part of my job when I invest in a start-up is to get folks excited about the company. It’s not that hard. Because I am genuinely excited. Or I wouldn’t make the investment. And part of the picture I try to paint for the The Next Investor is where…

Can Pricing keep on being ignored and overlooked in SaaS?

A Simple Growth Marketing Plan For SaaS Startups

Use this spreadsheet and the right questions to not…

The AI-first SaaS Funding Napkin

What does it take to raise seed funding as an AI-first SaaS startup…

SaaS margins are terrible

Sammy is the Managing Director and Cofounder of Blossom Street Ventures. Email him directly at…

Our first SaaS application using Vue.js

This article was initially published on alka-web.com

SaaS 產品該如何設計？談數據指標＆設計思維重點（內含案例）

SaaS 是軟體即服務（Software as a Service）的簡稱，有別於過去需要將軟體下載、安裝到本機端才能使用，並且還要自行進行後續維護的產品模式，SaaS…

Bootstrapping in SaaS? It Does Work. But Add 4 Years to the Timeline.

Bootstrapping in SaaS it isn’t that hard, per se. It happens all the time.

Companies like Atlassian and Qualtrics have cruised past nine-figures in ARR (and IPO’d in the case of…

From Launch to Series A: 10 Prios Before You Reach 10k MRR — SaaS SMBs Ed. (1/10)

Priority #1: Setting the Right Goals

How To Build and Scale Your SaaS Billing Solution

What you need for a Minimum Viable Product

Average SaaS CEO salaries

Sammy is the Managing Director and Cofounder of Blossom Street Ventures. Connect on LinkedIn or email him directly…

How to Build a SaaS Platform 3rd-Party Developers Will Love

It requires a special blend of technology…

Why SaaS companies get it wrong when it comes to payment terms

The Practical Product Management Framework For SaaS (With Templates)

To Help You Build The Right…

Running untrusted JavaScript as a SaaS is hard. Here’s how I tamed the demons.

Customer Loyalty Management Software: Popular SaaS Solutions

The 5 Stages of a SaaS Subscription

The Death of the SaaS LTV/CAC

A little over two years ago I wrote a blog piece on Early Stage SaaS Unit Economics which outlines LTV/CAC…

How much is your SaaS company worth?

Valuation in the private markets is certainly much more of an art than a science, and…

How Slack will break the SaaS pricing model as we know it… for the better

After attending SaaStr annual two weeks back , I returned to NYC with two big takeaways.

1. More and more companies are moving the outbound process to marketing.

How to Bootstrap Your SaaS Company to $1M ARR Before Raising Venture Capital

SaaS Is Dead —Time To Call It Software… Once Again

That’s a nice little $1–2M SaaS company you have here. Call me to discuss if it will scale!

About two years ago, Josh Hannah of Matrix Partners wrote an excellent article titled “That’s a nice little $40M eCommerce company you have there. Call me when it scales.” In…

From Scratch to the First 10 Customers: How I designed and Launched a SaaS Product

On building our first SaaS Start-Up

Understanding viral growth in SaaS

A few tips to unlock virality and maintain low CACs at scale

Best ideas and examples of SaaS startups for 2022

Ashok Varma, SaaS Founder, Dies at 32

As I write this obituary, it does not feel like Ashok is no longer with us. Startup founders…

SaaS Based Marketplaces

Characteristics of the SaaS X marketplace hybrids

I stumble upon more and more startups launching SaaS products with marketplace dynamics tied to it. These are sometimes referred as “SaaS based marketplaces” meaning that these startups offer a product which the…

Inbound Marketing: A SaaS Startup Journey

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Trying to make sense of 10 years worth of SaaS funding data, in 14 simple charts

Early Stage SaaS Unit Economics

East Coast investors have a reputation for being sticklers around numbers, and not “buying the dream”, the same way our West Coast brethren tend to. In this piece I’m going to double down on the first part, and continue to strongly deny the second…

My SaaS Made $12.5K MRR in 1 Month. Here’s what I learned.

7th time lucky: Building a successful SaaS product.

“…you have to be stupidly optimistic to win at…

SaaS: Three Checklists to Choose Your Sales Model

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